Community Pharmacy England is releasing guidance ahead of a webinar to explain Category H, the new Drug Tariff category, to pharmacy owners.
We have published a comprehensive guide to the new Category H, explaining how entry to and price-setting arrangements for Category H will operate, as well as the background to these changes.
List of products moving from Category C to Category H in March 2026
Pharmacy owners can also sign up to a Category H webinar, scheduled for Monday 16th February at 7.30pm, where our funding and Drug Tariff experts will talk you through the details. There will also be plenty of time to answer your questions.
Register for the Category H webinar (note, booking will close at 12 noon on the day of the event)
About Category H
In December 2025, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) announced that it will be introducing Category H to Part VIIIA of the Drug Tariff from March 2026. Certain products available from multiple suppliers in Category C will begin to move to Category H in a phased approach. DHSC will set reimbursement prices for multi-source products in Category H using sales data from suppliers obtained under the Health Service Products (Provision and Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2018. DHSC aims to set reimbursement prices this way to better reflect the actual purchase prices of these products and to support fairer distribution of medicine margin.
This change, being imposed by DHSC, forms part of a series of community pharmacy drug reimbursement reforms following a public consultation in 2019. Additionally, this was one of the actions outlined in the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) 2025/26 funding settlement to support medicine margin arrangements.
Community Pharmacy England has objected to the introduction of the changes at this time because of the wider challenges pharmacies are facing and the risk that further changes could disrupt the already turbulent medicines supply chain.
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